User Reviews

When you have someone like Bee Taylor whose life becomes routing, it isn't hard to imagine her throwing herself into a romantic episode. She meets a man and they try to outdo one another in one experience after another. It turns out that the two of them are nursing a secret. It's a decent little episode.

Without the usual formula of Barney's dimwitted faux pas, or Opie's morality play, what does a writer do. Looks inward to what you have at hand and think outward to something we all can, or will, relate to. That's the core of this episode which, while barely humorous at all, hits the heart in a nice poignant way.

The character of Aunt Bee is like secret sauce. While the viewer may barely know she's there, she constantly is.. If the home is a refuge, it isn't anything but bricks and sticks without people giving it life. I think all of us know the matriarch of the home is like the beating heart that gives life to the place. In our case that's Aunt Bee. So, another episode centric to her is a natural. This time it is kind of keying on that part of human nature where we need companionship, maybe more as we age. However, with age certain facts must be faced. Like the need to chase a bit of our youth only to find out "that ship has sailed". In the end a solid, if largely devoid of humor, good episode. I admit I'm so addicted to looking forward to laughing out loud at Andy episodes it's far too easy to underestimate how good some non-humourous episodes actually are. This one is one of those that gets better as I age.

Charles Ruggles as Lowell Redlings Farquhar is his signature classic TV role in "The Beverly Hillbillies". John Canfield was stiff, and boring. Best thing about this episode was the 2 lead actors. Wasn't much they could do with a weak script. Most of the humor attempts were forced, and laid an egg. Not any laughs.